Congratulations!

MA A+U 2015-16 are very pleased to announce the following students have graduated successfully from the course.

Rayan Almaghrbi MA

Yibo Gao MA

Wenyi Huang MA

Selma Ayduz MA with Distinction

Moyang Liu MA

Yuxin Tian MA

Ewa Effiom MA with Distinction

Yuchen Qin MA

Xiaoyu Wen MA

Karan Gandhi MA with Distinction

Xiaojun Wang MA

Daqing Xu MA

Leah McKnight MA with Distinction

Peiyi Zhang MA

The Graduation Ceremony will take place at the Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester in December 2016 and we wish all our new graduands every success in their future careers. The cohort are pictured below waiting for their visit to the Soane Museum, London during the first week of their studies in 2015.

Dr. Ahlam Sharif

Congratulations to 2012 MA A+U alumna Dr. Ahlam Sharif who has recently been awarded a Ph.D from the University of Manchester for a thesis entitled

"Sustainable Architectural Design between Inscription and De-scription: The Case of Masdar City".


Ahlam writes

"The thesis aims to deconstruct the traditional dualities between design and use and blend the boundaries between them. It focuses on the design as a process that is complex, dynamic, and unpredicted on its own, where other processes, such as use, are part of it. It utilises the case of Masdar City, which has been designed by the architectural and urban planning firm Foster + Partners in the UK (F+P) and implemented in the Middle East, more particularly in the United Arab Emirates. It provides a particular focus on its first developed stage represented by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). Based on a qualitative and inductive approach, the conducted research utilises interviews and site observations with the designer, users, and other main contributors to target the main research aim. Through such emphasis, it reflects on the concept of sustainability that is itself contested, changeable, and vague."

Dr. Sharif will receive her doctorate at a graduation ceremony in July.

Graduation

Congratulations to all our new MA A+U graduates several of whom received their degree certificates at a ceremony in The Whitworth Hall at the University of Manchester on 17 December 2015. Pictured below (from the top left) are Chang Chen MA, Peiwu Fang MA, Honghao Zeng MA, Eamonn Canniffe, Professor Tom Jefferies, David Chandler MA, Meisoon Jumah MA, Aissa Sabbagh Gomez MA, and taking the selfie Preethi Madhana Kumar MA. We wish the new graduates well as they embark on their new careers.

CONGRATULATIONS!

MA A+U is very pleased to announce the results for the 2015 Graduating cohort.

DAVID CHANDLER M.A. with Distinction

CHANG CHEN M.A.

THISVI CHRISTOU M.A. with Distinction

PEIWU FANG M.A.

MEISOON JUMAH M.A.

PREETHI MADHANA KUMAR M.A.

AISSA SABBAGH GOMEZ M.A. with Distinction

HONGHAO ZENG M.A. with Distinction

The Graduation Ceremony will take place in December at the Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester. As the photographs below indicate 2014-15 has been a very special and enjoyable year and, as always, we wish all our new graduates success in their future careers.

More Graduation Selfies 2014

Following a graduation ceremony held on 9 December 2014 in the Whitworth Hall at the University of Manchester six of the latest group of graduates from MA A+U posed for selfies with the programme leader Eamonn Canniffe

Xiao Weng MA

Seton Wakenshaw MA

Yubing Xie MA

Zhenyu Yang MA

Aidin Ahani MA

Wenhao Yue MA

Graduation Selfie

CURTIS MARTYN (2013) and LAURA MINCA (2012) two recent graduates of MA A+U appear in this selfie taken at the degree ceremony held at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, when in addition to their MA degrees they were presented with their Master of Architecture degrees.

GRADUATION

At a Congregation held today at the Whitworth Hall new graduates of the MA A+U received their degrees from the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell.

The Congregation was addressed by Professor Simon Guy of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, and the graduands were presented by Professor Tom Jefferies, Head of the Manchester School of Architecture.

It was a special pleasure to see Gu Fang MA, Xiaoxue Bu MA, Xi Chen MA, and Shiyuan Qin MA who had all returned from China for the ceremony.

At dinner following the ceremony there assembled Curtis Martyn MA, Rebecca King MA, Hajir Alttahir MA, Xi Chen MA, Xiaoxue Bu MA, Shiyuan Qin MA and Justina Job MA.

Graduation

Graduates of the MA Architecture + Urbanism were well represented at the Manchester School of Architecture Degree Ceremony held at the Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester today, many of them receiving double masters awards having also successfully completed their Master of Architecture (RIBA Part 2) professional degrees. Among those present were

Mark Turner MA M.Arch who has also been nominated for the RIBA President's Silver Medal

Christina Gregoriou MA M.Arch

Rajinder Matharu MA M.Arch

Edward Patton MA M.Arch, Charlotte Gildart-Butler MA and Angela Heaney MA

Jack Penford Baker MA M.Arch who has also been nominated for the RIBA President's Silver Medal

Anna Lucas MA M.Arch

Damien Woolliscroft MA M.Arch

Graduation

The first group of MA A+U 2012 graduates received their degrees today at a ceremony at the Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester. Ochuko Edewor, Ahlam Sharif, Eamonn Canniffe, Wanxin Wu, Professor Tom Jefferies and Yussur Al-Chokhdar are pictured after the ceremony.

Professor Jefferies and Mr. Canniffe were accompanied on the podium by their colleagues Amy Hanley and Dr. Leandro Minuchin

Graduation

MA A+U graduates from two cohorts (2009-10 and 2010-11) featured heavily in the Manchester School of Architecture Degree Ceremony held today in the Bridgewater Hall

Kathryn Timmins (2010-11)

Emma Watson (2009-10), Preeya Vadgama (2010-11), Jack O'Reilly (2010-11) and Ed Cutler (2009-10)

Shin-Youn Kang (2009-10) and Chung Yan Grace Pang (2009-10)

All the above graduates also received their Bachelor of Architecture (RIBA Part 2) degrees at the ceremony.

The pomp and flummery of the academics' procession was observed with some amusement by the school's excellent administrative team
Gillian Ward, June Jackson and Karen Parkinson

Graduation

Ketki Tendolkar, Supriya Pundlik and Natalie Macbride
with Eamonn Canniffe

The first trio of graduates of the 2010-11 MA A+U cohort received their degrees at a ceremony held in the Whitworth Hall at the University of Manchester on Monday 12 December. In his speech the Head of the School of Environment and Development Professor Simon Guy praised the excellent quality of the year's work, and wished them all well for their future careers in the UK and around the world.

Also on the dais and participating in the ceremony were Dr. Albena Yaneva, Head of the Manchester School of Architecture Professor Tom Jefferies, Dr. Leandro Minuchin and Dr. Isabelle Doucet

On with the show ...

You are cordially invited to the exhibition of the work of our new MA graduates at RIBAhub Manchester. The exhibition features the work of

Robert Aspray MA
Carrie Bayley MA with Distinction
Neven Buric MA
Luke Butcher MA with Distinction
Stephen Gingell MA
Christina Gregoriou MA
Rongxiao Han MA
Angad Kasliwal MA
Anastassia Kolpokova MA
Jonas Komka MA
Meliz Kusadali MA
Natalie Macbride MA
Laleh Mohammad Zadeh Faida Pour MA
Jack O'Reilly MA with Distinction
Supriya Pundlik MA
Ketkibharat Tendolkar MA
Kathryn Timmins MA with Distinction
Preeya Vadgama MA with Distinction
Chen Xu MA

and runs between 29 September and 14 October. There will be an open evening on Tuesday 4 October at RIBAhub and the exhibition is a part of the MMU Faculty of Art and Design MA Show 2011

Graduation

MA A+U graduates Parvinder Marwaha and Peteris Kokins received their degrees from the Chancellor of the University of Manchester Tom Bloxham MBE at a degree ceremony on Monday 11 July. Parvinder and Peteris were awarded Bachelor of Architecture degrees also.

Graduation

Emma Watson, Nima Dibazar, Gaia Zamburlini, Pardip Bansal and Marwa Al-Nahlawi

The first graduation ceremony featuring the 2009-10 MA A+U cohort took place today 13 December at the Whitworth Hall. The graduates received their awards from the Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Tom Bloxham MBE.

Nima Dibazar modelling his academic dress before the ceremony. Nima, Pardip and Marwa all featured in the brief video about the course available here